by Henri Charrière · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475303192
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«Papillon» is the autobiographical novel by Henri Charrière, published by Orbis in hardcover (473 pages, in Spanish).
Henri Charrière recounts in the first person his conviction for a murder he always denied and his subsequent sending to a penal colony in French Guiana. There he describes the extremely harsh living conditions among inmates and his numerous escape attempts, in a constant struggle to preserve dignity and regain freedom.
First title in the Papillon series. Number 16 in the Biblioteca de grandes éxitos collection, with translation from French by Domingo Pruna and Vicente Villacampa.
For readers of adventure classics and autobiographical stories of struggle for freedom.
Henri Charrière was a French writer who was convicted of murder in 1931 by the French courts and pardoned in 1970. He wrote the 1969 novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony in French Guiana. While Charrière claimed that Papillon was largely true, modern researchers believe that much of the book's material came from other inmates, rather than Charrière himself. Charrière denied committing the murder, although he freely admitted to having committed various other petty crimes prior to his incarceration.
